If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Jimmy Buffett

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Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci

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Fix your course on a star and you'll navigate any storm.

Leonardo da Vinci

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But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the "heavenly high jubilation," must also be ready to be "sorrowful unto death"?

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Here the ways of men part: if you wish to strive for peace of soul and pleasure, then believe; if you wish to be a devotee of truth, then inquire.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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